‘Dilexi Te’: The Franciscan Framework of Pope Leo’s First Document…

The first major document of a pontificate is highly anticipated as an indication of the new Pope’s agenda. Pope Leo XIV has chosen to place his first document, the apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You) into a Franciscan framework. The Vatican press office, unusually, carried a news item that Dilexi Te had been signed on Saturday, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4…

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